World of Warcraft: Reviving Stromgarde

High-ranking commander Halford Wymbane, who was defeated in the battle for Southsea Town, could only lead the Alliance's Seventh Army to the Jasper Mine in the southwest of Hillsbrad Hills.

The Seventh Legion experienced the battle of Thoradin's Wall and the battle for Nanhai Town, losing half of its troops, and everyone who remained was injured. Even the Seventh Legion, which had experienced such a desperate battle as the Battle of Ragnarok, It’s time to take a short break and lick your wounds.

However, although the Jasper Mine is close to the sea, its location does not have a good bay like Nanhai Town, making it impossible to build a military port.

Halford Wymbane also sent soldiers from the Kingdom of Kul Tiras in the Seventh Legion to explore the bay, but they were almost wiped out by the murlocs living near the coast.

Murlocs are an amphibious race. They mainly rely on the ocean for life, but like to live on land. Even though the murlocs are considered a subpar force due to their innate physical weakness, the murlocs are huge in number and very united, and are known as an adventurer's nightmare. Once you accidentally attract a murloc's Pay attention, very soon, these murlocs shouting "woo la woo la" will summon ten times the number of murlocs to deal with you.

Due to the outbreak of the Scourge, the Hillsbrad Hills were also greatly affected. The fishermen living on the southern coast of Hillsbrad fled to large villages and towns. Without the human fishermen, a village with more than 100,000 people The most populous murloc clans occupy the southern coast of Hillsbrad Foothills.

With such a large murloc clan, it can be said that the Alliance wants to clear them out before building a port. It can be said that the gain outweighs the gain.

Halford Wyrmbane can only pin his hopes on the Stormpike Legion of the Ironforge dwarves. As long as the Stormpike Legion can capture the Alterac Mountains, the alliance's strategy will still be successful.

But what Halford Wymbane didn't know was that the Stormpike Legion accidentally dug into the Alterac Valley because they wanted to dig holes instead of climbing the snow-capped mountains, and they had to fight with the tribes living in the Alterac Valley. The orc Frostwolf clan is in conflict.

General Fandral Stormpike of the Stormpike Legion directly led the complete Stormpike Legion this time. It was not just a vanguard force that initially entered the Alterac Valley as in the original history.

The Frostwolf Clan in Alterac Valley has also been strengthened. The Frostwolf Clan Chief Hero Shaman Drek'Thar is in the Alterac Valley. The leaderless dragon of the Frostwolf Clan was not exploited by the dwarves of the Stormpike Legion. There was a gap, and the orcs of Hammerfell moved to Alterac Valley.

Even if Drek'Thar is old and frail, even if Drek'Thar is blind, the strength of the hero-level shaman is still there, and he almost chopped up Fandral Stormpike, the general of the Stormpike Legion. .

He was almost chopped into pieces by an old blind orc. If it weren't for his short height, this incident completely angered Fandral Stormpike, and made the stubborn Fandral Stormpike decide to fight with the Frostwolf clan. .

One of the most famous battlefields in World of Warcraft, the battlefield in Alterac Valley has officially begun.

The battle between the dwarves of Ironforge's elite Stormpike Legion and the Frostwolf Clan was at its peak from the beginning, with both sides investing more than 50,000 troops.

This turned the originally peaceful Alterac Valley into a bloody place.

The presence of the Frostwolf Clan in Alterac Valley also prevented Alterac City, which was being rebuilt by the Covenant, from being captured.

When the Stormpike dwarves sent an aircraft to the Jasper Mine to ask the Seventh Legion to deal with the Frostwolf clan dwarves in the Alterac Valley, Halford Wyrmbane was so angry that he kept banging his head against the stone of the Jasper Mine. wall.

Halford Wyrmbane has repeatedly ordered Fandral Stormpike to withdraw the Stormpike Legion from the battlefield between Alterac Valley and the Frostwolf Clan, but how could the dwarves above listen to Halford? What about Wirmbane's opinion?

Fandral Stormpike returned a letter, despising Halfur Wymbane's retreat in the battle for Southshore, and the Seventh Legion should fight to the end like the dwarves of the Stormpike Legion.

This letter made Halford Wymbane, who was almost angry, unable to bear it.

What is this? He asked the Stormpike Legion to attack the covenant city of Alterac. As a result, the Stormpike Legion not only failed to attack the covenant city of Alterac, but also provoked the Horde in the Alterac Valley. They were completely defeated. Dragged into the quagmire of the Alterac Valley battlefield, unable to escape.

Successive failures and accidents caused the Alliance's plan to completely fail, and the strategy of establishing a forward fortress in the Hillsbrad Hills was in vain.

So, in the dim jasper mine, Halford Wymbane stared at the map of the northern continent of the Eastern Kingdom, thinking about the next path of the Seventh Legion.

Admit defeat and return to Menethil Harbor or Theramore? This is not something that the arrogant Halford Wymbane can accept. He is unwilling to admit defeat. He believes that with his own talents, he will eventually defeat the Covenant.

Since the Hillsbrad Hills are no longer accessible, we might as well give up here and continue our strategic shift to the west.

The Kingdom of Gilneas has closed itself off and abandoned the land outside the Greymane Wall. The Silverpine Forest is now almost ownerless, and there are not even many undead from the Scourge.

Instead of setting up a forward fortress at a huge cost in the Hillsbrad Hills, the center of the covenant, it would be better to go to the unclaimed land of Silverpine Forest.

Silverpine Forest is vast and has a long and narrow coastline. Compared with Hillsbrad Hills, Silverpine Forest is more suitable for establishing a port and allowing Alliance troops to land.

After making the decision, Halford Wymbane led the Seventh Legion to leave the Jasper Mine and head to the Silver Pine Forest.

Since the dwarven troops who established the South Point Gate established Dangarok in the southeastern part of the Hillsbrad Hills, the South Point Gate now has almost no defenders and was easily broken through by the Seventh Legion.

Unlike the Hillsbrad Hills, which were barely affected by the Scourge, Silverpine Forest, a land that was originally full of life, almost turned into a ghost shrouded in darkness all day long due to the influence of the Scourge.

Ambermere, a human town in the Kingdom of Lordaeron, was protected by the blood elf prince Kael'thas Sunstrider when the Scourge broke out, so it did not fall. Now it is protected by the Covenant.

After learning the lesson from Southsea Town, Halford Wyrmbane gave up the idea of ​​occupying human towns. The Covenant was more recognized by the remnants of the Kingdom of Lordaeron than he imagined.

So Halford Wyrmbane chose Shadowfang Castle. Shadowfang Castle is an abandoned castle of the Kingdom of Gilneas. It is an extremely hard military castle and was built on the coast of Silverpine Forest. It is a natural military fortress. and ports.

It fully meets the requirements of the Alliance for a forward fortress on the northern continent of the Kingdom of Lordaeron.